Overview

• Fewer than 400 federal employees will remain on duty at the National Nuclear Security Administration as furlough notices go out to roughly 1,400 staff.
• Pantex in Texas and Y-12 in Tennessee are expected to enter safe shutdown mode as assembly work pauses under reduced staffing.
• The NNSA Office of Secure Transportation is funded only through October 27, according to the Department of Energy.
• Unnamed agency sources say contractors may exhaust funds as early as October 28, which could halt deliveries to the Department of Defense.
• Officials say security personnel remain on post and report no immediate national security threat despite curtailed oversight and operations.